1. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 2017
Workshop 1: Developing Leadership Capacity within the EIS

2. Leadership Development 2016
BUILDING CAPACITY AND SUCCESSION PLANNING
BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE UNION FROM UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS
FUTURE STRATEGIES AND SKILLS TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES
COMMUNICATION SKILLS

3. BUILDING CAPACITY AND SUCCESSION PLANNING
PROPOSAL
ACTION
Social Media – training and encouragement to use/become involved
Accessed Digital Unions Funding to support industrial action campaign
LA activists and EIS staff: 19 Edinburgh, 15 Glasgow
SUL 10 courses over 2 years,  12 participants per course

4. BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE UNION FROM UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS
PROPOSAL
ACTION
Targeting younger teachers
Capitalise on young people’s interest in activism
Design of Leadership Development 2017
Request to LA Secs, Organisers and Servicing Officials of Networks to identify potential new activists
Mentoring potential new reps and activists with more experienced reps – staged approach
Design of LDD buddying
Practical illustration of leadership as a collective endeavour
Emphasis on women in leadership roles
Consideration of wider campaigns re gender balance
Application to SUL : funding for professional learning on leadership for women members
Get it Right for Girls publication
Women on Public Boards consultation
STUC Women’s Committee
Executive Committee considering gender balance within union structures

5. BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE UNION FROM UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS
PROPOSAL
ACTION
Personal communication for BME members
Enhance the confidence of BME members by sharing information re union roles, processes etc.
Invitation to participate in SUL-funded leadership event
BME Member Seminar May 2016
SEJ article focusing on activists
February edition
De-mystify
Creation and distribution of Activist cards

6. BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE UNION FROM UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS
PROPOSAL
ACTION
Sharpened communication around terms and conditions, LNCT agreements, WTAs – knowledge of rights and entitlements
Promote a collegiate model of union representation
Industrial action campaign materials and follow up advice on tackling workload
Design of event
Communicate the relationship between the EIS as a trade union and the quality of children’s educational experience
Application to SUL
Equality and Human Rights in the Classroom
ASN- autistic spectrum; social, emotional and behavioural difficulties; and speech and language impairment
Developing Awareness of Young People’s Mental Health
Teaching Children from Refugee and Immigrant Communities

7. FUTURE STRATEGIES AND SKILLS TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES
PROPOSAL
ACTION
Different strategies on leadership at all levels – national, local, rep/school
Mentoring, shadowing, networking central in this as part of overall strategy
Leadership Development buddying element, focus on leadership as activism
Application to SUL for funding for professional learning on different kinds of teacher leadership- general, for BME teachers and for women
CPD/Training that incorporates importance and professional benefits of activism
CPD as an organising tool
Exploration of ways of EIS working more closely with Scottish Government on delivery of professional learning

8. COMMUNICATION SKILLS PROPOSAL ACTION EIS national Facebook page
Balance of communication types needed
Established June 2016
1733 page likes
Our last post reached more than 21,000 people
73 shares, 30 comments and 266 reactions
Written: SEJ, letters, Reps bulletin, posters, policy papers and publications
Digital: website, s, e-bulletin, Facebook, Twitter
AV: short films, radio, tv

9. ORGANISER TEAM

10. What next? Evaluation Officials Committees
Proposal: Always reflect on activities and learn from them
Evaluation
Officials
Committees

11. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LOCALLY?
Recent progress
Future priorities